30 iconic Star Wars roles that almost went to different actors

23. General Hux (Jesse Plemons) 

Over the past few years, Jesse Plemons has stepped into the limelight with major Oscar-contender-type roles in The Irishman and Judas and The Black Messiah, but he almost landed a role in Star Wars following his work on the popular series Breaking Bad. While he didn’t book the role, he did apparently get congratulated for his non-existent part.

In an interview with Vulture in 2016, Plemons revealed that he had auditioned for the new Star Wars trilogy and that news of his audition had gotten out while his involvement was still up in the air. “I had gone in and read, and then I was going to meet J.J. Abrams, and then, all of a sudden, it was released that I was going to do it. I’d only auditioned once, and I hadn’t even met him yet. So that was bizarre because I heard from everyone. I’m like, ‘No. No, no, no. Stop it.’”

Plemons went on to say, “Even after the movie was filmed, I would get calls from people like, ‘Heard about Star Wars, congratulations!’ It’s like, ‘You heard some different information…’” That had to be awkward.

While Plemons has never confirmed which character he was up for, it has been speculated that he was vying for the role of General Hux, which eventually went to Domhnall Gleeson.